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Think Hayao Miyazaki has gone soft in his old age? Nope.

As our colleagues at io9 reported, Miyazaki is keen to come out of semi-retirement to make one last feature film. Back in 2013, he officially announced that he would no longer make full-length movies.

Since then, he’s worked on other projects, including a short film called Kemushi no Boro, which he now hopes to expand to a full-length film.

A recent NHK special showed how Miyazaki has been spending his time. When it starts, Studio Ghibli’s production studio is empty, as it was dissolved back in 2014. But during the course of the TV special, it begins teeming with life.

In one scene, Miyazaki learns to use a tablet for animation. This is a big deal, because for most of Miyazaki’s life, he’s been, well, analog.